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Brexit: MPs debate fresh attempt to block autumn no-deal prorogation - live news Brexit: MPs vote to stop Boris Johnson proroguing parliament for no-deal by majority of 41 - live news
(32 minutes later)
And here is the list of MPs who voted against the Benn amendment. Only one Labour MP, Kate Hoey, voted with the Tories and the DUP against it and only one independent, Ian Austin.
Here is the division list with all the MPs who voted for the Benn amendment in the first vote.
There were 17 Conservatives voting for it.
MPs are now voting on whether or not the accept the other Lords amendments, from two to 18.
MPs have now voted to accept the Lords amendment as amended (see 1.48pm) by 315 votes to 273 - a majority of 42.
This is from the Labour peer Andrew Adonis, one of the strongest advocates in the party of a second referendum.
Huge victory in House of Commons for stopping Johnson from closing down Parliament in Sept & October - majority of 41! No way there will be no deal! Ignore the Boris bluster - we are in course for second referendum
From the Times’ Francis Elliott
Welcome to your new house Mr Johnson - 17 Tory MPs voted against plus unknown number of abstentions
From the Spectator’s James Forsyth
Size of the majority for this attempt to stop propagation a reminder of how tricky getting no deal through Parliament would be. Will strengthen the faction in Boris’s court arguing for a carefully calibrated Brexit ask
MPs are now voting on the Lords amendment to the bill passed last night, as amended by the Benn amendment.
Broadly speaking, this should be a re-run of the previous vote.
The government lost that vote by a much bigger margin than people were expecting.
Although opinion is split as to whether or not the Commons could block a no-deal Brexit - as this Institute for Government briefing argued, under current procedure it is “near impossible”, but it might be possible because this Speaker has hinted he would bend the rules - the size of this victory will embolden those who think parliament does have the muscle to block a no-deal Brexit.
MPs have voted to stop Boris Johnson proroguing parliament in the autumn to facilitate a no-deal Brexit by 315 votes to 274 - a majority of 41.
From ITV’s Robert Peston
In case anyone still expecting @PhilipHammondUK to resign as chancellor today, he won’t. I am reliably told it is on his “to do list” for early next week. But Hammond is so opposed to any attempt to deprive parliament of a chance to block no-deal Brexit, he will today...
not oppose the Lords amendment that endeavours to make a prorogation of parliament in October impossible. So will @theresa_may sack him. Seems very unlikely
From CityAM’s Owen BennettFrom CityAM’s Owen Bennett
Boris Johnson is sitting right among the awkward squad of Tory MPs. Phillip Lee, Sam Gyimah and Justine Greening all just behind him.Boris Johnson is sitting right among the awkward squad of Tory MPs. Phillip Lee, Sam Gyimah and Justine Greening all just behind him.
From the Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner
Big question now will be whether Theresa May sacks ministers who abstain. @tamcohen reckons six Cabinet abstentions, and one of them could be Hammond. What a mess.
These are from Newsnight’s Nicholas Watt.
Margot James voted against government and will resign as a minister
Anti no deal Tories say six cabinet ministers abstaining: Philip Hammond, David Gauke, Rory Stewart, Karen Bradley, Greg Clark and Caroline Noakes
One anti no deal Tory: we have the numbers
From the Spectator’s James Forsyth
Brexiteer government ministers increasingly pessimistic about this vote
This is from @PoliticalPics, a photographer specialising in the Number 10 beat.
Hammond just stuck his head out the door of No11!
Perhaps it is coincidence. Or perhaps Philip Hammond wants people to know he is not voting.
What we don’t know is whether he has permission from the whips to abstain (because they have paired him with a non-voting Labour MP), or whether he is abstaining unilaterally.
Only seven Tory MPs rebelled on the last comparable vote on prorogation - the vote last week on the Dominic Grieve amendment saying the government should have to produce fortnightly reports in the autumn on progress towards restoring the power-sharing executive. It would not have stopped a new PM proroguing parliament, but Grieve argued it was a step in the right direction.
As the voting list shows, the seven Tory rebels were: Guto Bebb, Ken Clarke, Justine Greening, Dominic Grieve, Sam Gyimah, Phillip Lee and Sir Oliver Letwin.
From the Daily Mail’s John Stevens
DCMS minister Margot James walked into the aye lobby with the rebels
From Sky’s Beth Rigby
Senior opposition MP heading into chamber tells me “it’s going to go well” and reckons they’ll be over two dozen rebels. Thinks many will abstain....
MPs are now voting on the Benn amendment. (See 12.34pm.)
John Penrose is making a broader point.
He says he voted remain. But he accepts the democratic decision of the public. Brexit must be implemented, he says.
MPs are “running out of road”. Voters’ patience is running out. He says this amendment is about trying to prevent Brexit happening.
MPs shout “rubbish” at him.
John Penrose, the Northern Ireland minister, is winding up the debate now.
He says too many additional issues have been added to this bill.
He says he has two narrow criticisms of the Benn amendment. Parts of this amendment were defeated in the Commons, he says, and parts were ruled out of scope. He says MPs should reject the amendment on those grounds.
John Baron, a Tory Brexiter, claims the rebels are “tilting at windmills”. The Conservatives would never allow parliament to be prorogued.
Penrose goes on. He says his other criticism of the Benn amendment is that it does not have anything to do with Northern Ireland.
If the Stormont assembly restarts before the bill gets royal assent, it will never become law, he says.
He says passing the amendment would set an unwelcome constitutional precedent.